The life and death of Agnes Thor
See how this young Swedish photographer tries to capture the transience of life in her images
Steve McCurry on the Afghan Girl, beauty and 9/11
The Magnum photographer describes his working practices and his view of the world in an Italian TV interview
Lady Gaga mimics Marina Abramović
The singer draws on Warhol, Koons, Botticelli et al to promote her new album
From shorts to shaving - a secret history of leg fashion
Colin McDowell's Anatomy of Fashion offers thousands of insights into how we dress - here's a few of them
Will this vertical garden take root in Berlin?
Agnieszka Preibisz and Peter Sandhaus believe their Green8 scheme could transform the city's Alexanderplatz
Carlo Scarpa praised by New York's Artists
Leading figures in the New York art world praise the architect's work, to mark the opening of Scarpa's Met show
Ben Marcin photographs the last house standing
German-born US-based photographer looks at single houses that hang on when the neighbours have gone
High praise for The Chinese Art Book
The world's press seems to agree: The Chinese Art Book offers an unrivalled overview of one nation's art
Art as Therapy extends to photography
Alain de Botton thinks painful photographs like Eve Arnold's below can be therapeutic
Tomi Ungerer's Fog Island is one of The New York Times' Best Illustrated Children's Books of 2013
Tomi Ungerer's brilliant children's book just won a place in the newspaper's prestigious annual list
Tony Kaye on how he changed advertising
The greatest British ad director of recent times comes back to London to explain how he did it
Sara Naim goes tree spotting in Dubai
The British-born photographer finds hardy specimens hanging on among the office blocks and sand dunes
Modernist masterworks recovered in Munich
1,500 works found in the Munich apartment of the son of Nazi-era Degenerate Art Exhibition co-curator
The science and beauty of Edmaier's Grand Canyon
EarthArt offers both a fine collection of aerial views and a wealth of geological insight into our planet's beauty
What America’s banks did next
Michael Vahrenwald’s project, The People’s Trust, looks at how US bank buildings have been repurposed
Colman Andrews reads from The Taste of America This week: Mayhaw jelly
The celebrated food writer and Phaidon author Colman Andrews introduces us to "the cranberry of the South"
The perfect imperfections life-sized doll furniture
When Slovakian design student Silva Lovasová scaled up toy lamps and chairs, she kept all the flaws in
Sou Fujimoto’s secret Saudi tower
The Japanese architect’s master plan in Jeddah is both ‘confidential’ and practically transparent
Banksy’s NYC residency is over
The British graffiti artist signs off his month-long residency in New York with a plea to save outdoor art
Herzog and de Meuron strips back Park Ave. Armory
Why the Pritzker Prize laureate has taken away all the more recent additions from this New York Institution
Why Delhi is an Art City of The Future
Solid institutions? Global connections? What does a city need for its artists to make art as good as this?
What is real and what is fake in this model town?
Photographer and model maker Michael Paul Smith has been photographing his own town for the last 25 years
Colin McDowell on how punk was defeated
Our author charts ripped clothing and safety pins from early modern mercenaries to Elizabeth Hurley
Le Corbusier and Oscar Niemeyer, now in Lego
Lego's architecture range now includes the pair's great collaboration, New York's United Nations Building
Geeta Kapur's art of Indian citizenship
The world-renowned Indian curator and Phaidon author tackles statehood in the second of her five exhibitions
Alain de Botton on Banksy and buying art
The public intellectual and Phaidon author believes galleries should help their clients to lead better lives
Does this wrecked liner remind you of Fellini too?
Gigi Cifali's surreal photographs of the Costa Concordia revel in the wreck's dark absurdity
René Redzepi talks trash, brains and ants in London
Next month, hear the world-famous chef describe the year he tried to make Noma "a happier place to be in"
Wallis, Gilbert's concrete makes a comeback
One of the British practice's earliest creations is reborn as a modern, concrete-loving, mixed use hub
Stephen Shore shares his Lou Reed pictures
Following the singer's passing, Shore posted one of his Factory shots, featuring a young, vulnerable Reed
Hear Brice Marden at NY Public Library next week
The celebrated American artist talks with Phaidon's Dr David Anfam and Phaidon Focus author Eileen Costello
Marc Wilson's accidental war memorials
The British photographer captures Europe's WWII battlements as they disappear into the coastline
When Diego Rivera turned propaganda into art
Upon the publication of Art and Place, we take a look at Rivera's murals at the Universidad Autonoma de Chapingo
A great body of praise for The Anatomy of Fashion
Colin McDowell's magisterial overview of clothes, anatomy and culture meets with universal praise worldwide
Arthur C Danto 1924 - 2013
The critic and Warhol advocate, who popularised the term 'the artworld' has died
Whose hometown is this?
John Maclean photographs the hometowns of his artistic heroes, adding a little of their style into his shots
Tubular hotel opens in the Russian Caucasus
LEAPrus 3912 by Italian architects LEAPfactory is built on the side of a dormant volcano
Olafur Eliasson wins MIT Award
The Danish-Icelandic artist will receive the $100,000 Eugene McDermott Award
The extreme performance art of He Yunchang
Physical endurance, self mutilation and the removal of a rib - The Chinese Art Book has the story
If the cap fits . . . wear it!
The Anatomy of Fashion author Colin McDowell talks us through the historical importance of the hat
Colman Andrews reads from The Taste of America This week: Sparkling Cider
In the latest reading from his wonderful new book The Taste of America, celebrated food writer Colman Andrews spins a fascinating story about one of our favourite fizzy drinks
New York approves bean-pole slim addition by SHoP
410 metres tall but only 13 metres wide - New York's new addition will offer sweeping views over Central Park
First photorealism retrospective comes to the UK
The Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery brings together the poppy pictures that look like photographs
The New York Times is at Home with Wild Art
US paper of record features our book in today's Home & Garden section and delights in the wild architecture
Why Steve Jobs tried to join Norman Foster’s team
In a new planning application video, the British architect describes the late Apple CEO's commissioning style
Where Phaidon figures in ArtReview’s Power 100
Our artists, authors and advisers feature highly in the art magazine’s list of contemporary art’s big players
Listen to Robert Capa speak
To commemorate the centenary of the Magnum founder's birth, the ICP unearths his only radio interview
Mexican architect rethinks the Egyptian pyramids
Juan Carlos Ramos adds windows, a garage, bedrooms and balconies to an ancient architectural form
Air France's flying cutlery
Eugeni Quitllet playfully redesigns the French flag carrier's knives, forks and dishes
How Rothko mocked up his Houston chapel in NY
Art & Place reveals how the artist scaled an interior world of private spirituality designed to engulf the viewer
How the Kent State shootings inspired Richard Prince
In a new essay the artist describes how he was arrested for lowering his college flag to half-mast
Mingei: Are You Here? updates Japanese tradition
Folk art movement Mingei finds favour with contemporary artists courtesy of curator Nicolas Trembley
Climate change chief reduced to tears
UNFCCC Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres obviously needs to read Jonathon Porritt's The World We Made
Josef Koudelka shows Prague '68 shots in Bucharest
The Magnum photographer who captured the Prague Spring praises Romania, as his show opens in its capital
Introducing The Anatomy of Fashion
Author Colin McDowell MBE introduces an engaging book that delights in defining why we dress as we do
How Rauschenberg's photos structured his art
A new Manhattan show looks at how photography fitted into the late American artist's practice
Could this Manet painting relight your fire?
Alain de Botton thinks so and has an interesting theory about how to make love last in his new book Art as Therapy
Judd, Serra and co help you unpick Art & Place
Can these excerpted writings by prominent artists aid our understanding of Site-Specific Art? We think so
Chris Burden's guide to buying meteorites on Ebay
On the opening of his New York retrospective, the artist offered some choice insights into his work
Shigeru Ban's paper-tube tree house
The Japanese architect brings his "evolved wood" architecture to a suitably arboreal setting
Chris Johanson makes a folk art exhibition
The Californian artist curates a Craft and Folk Art Museum show that champions “the positive ritual of artmaking”
Do Ho Suh's Specimen Series
Korean artist's latest project focusses on elements of his Manhattan apartment
Why did these R'n'B videographers win an art prize?
Niko the Ikon picked up one of the inaugural Re Rebaudengo Serpentine Grants for young artists this week
Mumbai artists get a new concrete base
Sanjay Puri Architects create fittingly sculptural bulbous structure in concrete for Bombay Art Society
Carlo Scarpa by Louis Kahn
The last thing Louis Kahn wrote before his death was a poem to his friend Carlo Scarpa - this is what he wrote
The World Loves The World We Made
Jonathon Porritt's positive take on the future of our planet finds an approving audience across the globe
OMA splinter group's mega-estate in Singapore
Does this blocky design remind you of Northern European social-housing estates? Or Jenga blocks?
My friend Alex Atala by Alain Ducasse
"Alex’s understanding of ingredients borders on fervent passion. Going to a market with him is like diving into the very depths of the Brazilian land!" he says about the chef and author of D.O.M. Rediscovering Brazilian Ingredients
Elderfield and Zilczer on Gagosian’s de Kooning show
MoMA’s Chief Curator Emeritus and the noted art historian discuss this key reappraisal of his 1980s works
Surrealism's American perspective
The Philadelphia Museum of Art's Surrealists exhibition looks at its European origins as well as its US impact
The Bauhaus: now offering sleepovers
Bunk down where the design school's greats once slept. Prices include communal showers and shared restrooms
Come to our Wild Art launch
Head east tonight to celebrate works of art that thrive outside the gallery space
What the world's press are saying about Frieze
As London's international art fair opens for previews in Regent's Park today, we round up global opinions
Jonathan Ive and Marc Newson remodel the Leica
The Apple design chief and the Aussie design star remake the M model for Bono's RED charity auction
Shanghai developers plan to rebuild Crystal Palace
ZhongRong Group say the Victorian building's "ingenuity and scale is magnificent" and want to bring it back to life
The Chinese conference centre that thinks it's a city
Coop Himmelb(l)au say the rooms in their new Dalian Conference Centre have 'identifiable addresses'
Alex Atala helps São Paulo's kids get into the kitchen
The world-class chef and author outlines his take on cooking and ecology and raises cash for a local non-profit
Hirst remakes the Pharmacy as a desert juice bar
The Prada Oasis and Damien Hirst's Pharmacy Juice Bar pitched up north of Doha as part of his Qatar show
How much would you pay for a Hadid dolls' house?
Bidding is up to £9,000 for Hadid's model, as big-name architects build tiny houses to benefit a children's charity
How Picasso and co. weaved carpets into their work
The show at Paris' Musée d'Art moderne looks at the reintroduction of decorative arts into a fine-art setting
New York loves Mike Kelley
The late artist's huge retrospective at MoMA PS1 receives glowing write-ups
Phaidon takes over Topshop in London and New York
Vera Wang, Iris Apfel, Stephen Jones and Dirk Standen head up our all star launches for The Fashion Book
Colman Andrews reads from The Taste of America This week: Cowpeas
Our critically acclaimed and mellifluously-voiced author returns with another enthralling story from his new book
Bouroullecs reinvent the Stone Age with jewellery
Ronan and Erwan follow Ettore Sottsass, Konstantin Grcic and Naoto Fukasawa with Perles for Gallerie Kreo
Architects protest Zaha Hadid's Olympic stadium
Fou Sujimoto, Toyo Ito and Kengo Kuma say the design will dwarf its surroundings
David Gilbertson's Wine Bar Theory: Cut smart
Smart businesses re-examine each element of what they do and ask whether the customer really needs it
The World We Made on CBS This Morning
Jonathon Porritt tells morning show's three million viewers how we can create a truly sustainable world
Designer joins forces with algorithm for new bridge
Arturo Tedeschi’s latest parametric design Cloudbridge spans two mountainsides
Banksy speaks to the Village Voice
The graffiti artist talks Jackson Pollock and how “street art can feel like the marketing wing of an art career”
All aboard the floating Dutch apartment block
Waterstudio's Citadel block consists of 60 stylish homes floating in six feet of water near Rotterdam
David Gilbertson's Wine Bar Theory: Keep asking
The more time you spend asking simple questions, the smarter those questions become, says our business author
Tree house turned inside out by Kazakh designer
Aibek Almasov created this arboreal retreat for a businessman who prizes nature over privacy
Street artists rework Spotify's New York office
Wild Art adorns the walls at Music streaming service's latest New York outpost
Daniel Patterson on how to run a creative kitchen
The Coi chef shares his managerial and culinary wisdom with Bloomberg's Francine Lacqua
How's Banksy's New York residency going?
Can the British graffiti artist overcome rival graffiti artists, flat batteries and opportunist thieves?
More Wine Bar Theory advice from David Gilbertson
Why a retrieved customer becomes an advocate, but an aggrieved one tells everyone not to deal with you
Korea’s National Library gets an outpost by Samoo
When is a library not a library? Apparently when it's an E-brary’, a compound of ‘emotion’ and ‘library’
Koons remodels Lady Gaga as Venus
The artist's cover for the singer's forthcoming album reflects his recent obsessions, as well as her star qualities
Incredible, edible cities anyone?
Why environmentalist and author Jonathon Porritt believes our cities might soon really sustain us
